Is the booted tricholoma in British Columbia really Japanese matsutake?

Authors

  • Shannon Berch Sea Ra Lim, Alison Fischer, & Mary Berbee: Students, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22230/jem.2003v3n1a250

Keywords:

booted tricholoma, Japanese matsutake, British Columbia, Tricholoma sp., DNA sequence, pine mushroom management., Sea Ra Lim, Alison Fischer, Mary Berbee, Shannon M. Berch

Abstract

Using DNA sequence information, we compared three collections of the booted tricholoma (Tricholoma caligatum) and four collections of the pine mushroom (Tricholoma magnivelare) from British Columbia with the Japanese matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake) and with other North American collections of booted tricholoma and pine mushroom. We found that, in North America, the booted tricholoma is a distinct species and not the same as Japanese matsutake or pine mushroom. This implies that habitat information describing sites where pine mushroom is commercially harvested in British Columbia may not be relevant to the booted tricholoma. This may be important to forest managers concerned with pine mushroom management because although mushroom buyers purchase the booted tricholoma as pine mushroom, we don't know whether managing forests for pine mushroom would also manage for booted tricholoma.

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Published

2003-09-03

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